Who was the politician -I believe it was a politician- who mentioned a rise in sea levels if we removed all the boats?
(Steven Wright comedically wondered how much deeper the ocean be if there were no sponges in it.)
Just a thought:
If they took the salt out wouldn’t the ocean be wetter?
I don’t know.
But in a serious vein, we’re doing an excellent job of removing all the fish from the sea. Which will (slightly) lower sea level. So we’ve got that bit of anti-global warming mitigation going for us.
I don’t think any of you have any idea why I was even pondering the question. I often ponder things that have to be just right for life to exist. If water were 25% more or less than it is life would be challenged.
But we’re replacing the fish with plastics. We should be fine.
Actually, we’re replacing them with ships. Here’s where I got that odd fact from: Ships (xkcd.com)
Heavy, man!
(Or is it Deep?)
It’s not the worst question ever, honestly. The obvious answer is that there isn’t enough water for it to cover everything, and/or the land surface isn’t even enough. But there have been much, much worse questions asked here.
No, see, the salt makes the water sweat out the moisture.
Well, wait…another question occured to me,
How much can the ocean sweat?
Oh, I do.
The ocean is the planet’s sweat.
The Earth is a big sweaty ball.
That’s a perfect description of the weather here in NE KS if you add dripping.
I don’t think you people understand why I was pondering this…
I used to live not far from Wichita, so I believe it.
Did you used to work the straw?
Yes but I’m far from that opera forevermore.
If you were ten years old, I’d applaud your curiosity. But you’re supposed to be a grown up, and the problem is that in your pondering of things, you generally seem oblivious to the fact that smart people have been thinking about those things (and dedicating their lives to investigating them) for literally hundreds of years, and that your inane hot take is rather unlikely to be a profound insight that has never occurred to anyone before.
Yes, and is that because we can’t read minds or because of your habit of asking questions that are only tangential to the question you’re actually want to ask?